Three Al-Jazeera journalists have been sentenced to three years in jail by a court in Egypt after being convicted of “spreading false news”.
Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy, Australian journalist Peter Greste and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed were sentenced on Saturday at a retrial in Cairo. Greste was on trial in absentia having been deported to Australia earlier this year.
The three journalists were originally sentenced in July 2014, with Greste and Fahmy receiving seven years and Mohamed 10 years, before their convictions were overturned in January following an international outcry.
But at today’s sentencing judge Hassan Farid said he arrived at his decision Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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